The fat man didn't have a good impression of Sun Changsheng, if it weren't for him, he would have become the chief chef a long time ago. He was a little unconvinced, but he didn't want to slander others because of this.

"When did it happen?" Du Zijun continued to ask, he felt that maybe this matter had something to do with Bai Shuqin's miscarriage.

The fat man raised his head and thought about it, touched his chin and said, "It's probably going to be more than a month." Hey, who knows what he put it, and no one ate anything wrong after that, and I was not a person inside and out. ”

The fat man had been depressed about this matter for a long time, and he obviously saw Sun Changsheng put something in it, but there was no problem.

Du Zijun kept an eye on him, "Is there still any salt?" ”

"What are you asking for?" The fat man thought he was a little strange.

"I'm not curious, big brother, you are not a liar at first glance, I don't want to know what he put in the salt." Du Zijun told him with a hippie smile.

The fat man was straight-eyed, and saw that Du Zijun was a hairy boy, so he said to him: "I have seen it a long time ago, and there is no problem." The salt shakers were almost finished, and no guests came to trouble. ”

Just because no one is looking for trouble, no one believes the fat man's words, and they all think that he is jealous. In addition, Sun Changsheng is liked by the shopkeeper again, and others are estranged from the fat man.

"But I've heard that someone has diarrhea!" Du Zijun said deliberately.

The fat man is not a bad-hearted person, he waved his hand, "It's not normal for anyone to eat a bad stomach, you look at me, what I eat every day is fresh, should I still pull it!" ”

"Big brother is right!" Du Zijun echoed.

This fat man saw that Du Zijun was not bad, so he asked him to serve himself in the afternoon, and the two gags, chatting nonsense.

Ordinary people are good at this, unlike those dignitaries and nobles, who have to be careful when they say something. Du Zijun chatted with the fat man, and began to call him a brother, and he was like a mother.

Du Zijun is not familiar with the side dishes, occasionally makes some mistakes, and the fat man does not scold him, which is much better than the attitude of those cooks towards him at noon.

The evening is even busier than the noon, and when there are many guests outside, the whole kitchen is as busy as a spinning top. The people running outside kept coming to urge the food, and Du Zijun realized what he had to urge.

finally got a little free, and the fat man pulled Du Zijun to talk again.

When the two chatted, they laughed very loudly, and Sun Changsheng couldn't get used to it, so he came over and said two words to them, "You give me a little quiet, the kitchen is not a vegetable market." ”

The fat man was already dissatisfied with him, and he was even more unhappy when he heard him say this, and when he saw him leave, he said to Du Zijun: "Let's talk about ours, don't pay attention to him!" ”

"What should he do if he holds a grudge against us? Big brother, you are an old seniority, I just came, he kicked me, who to cry with! Du Zijun's face was full of worry, he was afraid that he would be kicked out in the next second.

"There's an old brother covering you, what are you afraid of!" The fat man comforted him, and out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the half-human-high black ceramic salt jar under the shelf behind him, pointed to the salt jar, and said to Du Zijun: "It's that salt jar, I don't know what he poured out." ”

Du Zijun looked at the place where the fat man's finger was, and when he saw the salt jar, his eyes immediately looked around. Everyone else is busy with their own business, and no one cares what they're doing.

"This salt is almost eaten to the end, but there is no problem, what do you say Sun Changsheng can pour into it?" The fat man said that he was talking to Du Zijun, but it was actually more like talking to himself.

No matter what was poured into it, as long as it had something to do with Bai Shuqin's miscarriage, Du Zijun would not let it go.

There are still some customers who order two dishes scattered outside, which is basically a stall. The rest of the work was not the fat man's turn, he handed his pot to Du Zijun, "Brother, you washed this pot." I need to go back to see my precious son! ”

"Big brother, go back quickly, leave it to me here, take me to see your son another day!" Du Zijun took the pot with a smile, poured some lye water neatly and played the pot with a brush.

When brushing the pot, Du Zijun heard the cook next to him say that the salt in the salt jar was almost gone, and it would be filled up tomorrow morning.

When Du Zijun heard this, he had to do it, if the new salt was poured up, even if there was really a problem with the salt, there would be no way to prove it. He quickly wiped the pot counter, then picked up a rag and wiped the cabinet again.

"The young man is really good, help me wipe this side too!" The middle-aged cook praised Du Zijun, and by the way, she put her rag on the utility cabinet.

There was a salt shaker under the cabinet, and Du Zijun couldn't wait to go over, so he immediately agreed: "Okay, sister!" Leave it all to me, you can go back early! ”

The cook smiled, "Young people should have more experience like this!" ”

When the other cooks saw this, they all handed over the work in their hands to Du Zijun, and they all left regardless of whether he agreed or not.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a problem with the salt, Du Zijun didn't bother to agree to them doing this job.

As soon as the cook left, there were more than half of the people in the kitchen, and the cooks who were in charge of the spoon had already left, leaving only some apprentices who usually stir-fried occasionally.

Du Zijun saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he secretly took a cup from the cupboard, hid it in his sleeve, tiptoed to the utility cabinet, squatted down and wiped the salt shaker.

He was paying attention to other people's movements while wiping, and at this time, someone happened to order food again, and those who didn't clean the kitchen went to work on the dishes, Du Zijun knew that the opportunity had come.

He opened the lid of the wooden board on the top of the salt jar, and the salt inside was almost exhausted, leaving only a thin layer of salt at the bottom.

The thing must have fallen from the top of the salt shaker, and Du Zijun didn't know if the thing had fallen to the bottom. But he didn't care so much at the moment, he stretched down the cup and scraped it under the salt shaker, but he didn't have half a cup.

Du Zijun scraped the salt on the side of the salt jar with his fingers and put it into the cup, afraid that others would find out, so he quickly covered the lid.

When the salt was in hand, Du Zijun's heart flew away, he wiped the bottom of the cabinet perfunctorily, said hello to the others, and quickly slipped away.

At this time, the door of Baohetang had already been closed, and Imperial Doctor Li had also returned to the palace, so Du Zijun could only take the salt and go to Beizhu.

Beizhu understood the ins and outs, and immediately pinched some salt with his hand and put it under his nose and sniffed it. The salt has no peculiar smell and no abnormalities in appearance.

Du Zijun took an empty cup and poured it full of water, grabbed some salt and threw it into the cup, and said to Beizhu: "I heard that you can judge whether there is poison with a silver needle, do you have a silver hairpin or something?" ”

"There's a silver hairpin, I'll get it." Beizhu got up and ran to the room, although she only tied her hair with a red rope on weekdays, but Bai Shuqin gave her a lot of beautiful jewelry when she was there, including a silver hairpin.

Behind the silver hairpin is a butterfly, and on the wings are pink jewelry, Beizhu likes this hairpin very much, and carefully wraps it in a white handkerchief and puts it in a jewelry box.

Beizhu handed the silver hairpin to Du Zijun, "Brother Zijun, give it to you." ”

Du Zijun took the silver hairpin and put it into the salt water in the cup, his eyes staring at the silver hairpin in the water.

He had heard that if something was poisonous, the silver hairpin would turn black, but he waited for a long time, and the silver hairpin did not change at all. He asked Beizhu with some doubts, "Are you sure this hairpin is silver?" ”

"Sister Bai told me it was silver!" Beizhu wasn't very sure, but Bai Shuqin told her so.

"What the third princess said, it shouldn't be wrong." Du Zijun touched his chin, since there is no problem with the silver hairpin, and there is no blackening, it means that there is nothing wrong with the salt.

Beizhu also frowned, she stared at the salt water in the bowl, trying to figure out why. She read a lot of medical books, and the poison recorded on it was colorless and odorless, and the silver hairpin could not be detected, and this poison was very difficult to detect.

Therefore, Beizhu felt that although the silver hairpin did not turn black, it did not mean that there was no problem with this salt. She thought for a while and said to Du Zijun, "Brother Zijun, I want to know if there is a problem with this salt, we can find a pregnant person to try, if she eats it and has a miscarriage, doesn't it prove that there is a problem with this salt?" ”

Du Zijun felt that what she said was a method, but after thinking about it, he dispelled the idea, "Which pregnant woman is willing to help us try, if something really happens, we will be considered murder." ”

"Huh? It's my inconsiderate thinking! Beizhu lowered her head embarrassedly, she only cared about thinking of a way, but she didn't think of this aspect. The child in the womb is also life, and even if someone wants to, she doesn't dare to try.

Human children are born from the belly, and the same animals such as dogs, cats, and pigs also give birth to cubs from the belly, and they can't be tried by humans, but can be tried by animals! Du Zijun patted his head and sighed that it was really aura!

By this time, it was already getting late, and everything had to wait for dawn.

Early the next morning, Du Zijun and Beizhu went out early, and the two of them searched around the capital for who had a pregnant dog.

They paid a high price, and they were happy to sell their dogs. By noon, the two had found six pregnant dogs. Some dogs can already see the puppy moving in their belly.

Du Zijun still didn't dare to bring the dogs back to the Three Princes' Mansion, so he could only bring all the dogs to Baohetang. To verify that it was indeed a salt problem, they fed three of the dogs meat with salt and the remaining three with meat without salt, and everything else was the same.

In order to distinguish the dogs, Hokugisa put a different color collar on each dog.

Beizhu teased a white dog, saw it wagging its tail at her, and said with some worry: "Brother Zijun, if there is really a problem with this salt, aren't these dogs too pitiful?" ”

"There is not necessarily a problem with this salt, if there is a problem, then we will let them eat enough for the rest of their lives." Du Zijun is not as sentimental as Beizhu.

After getting the salt, Du Zijun didn't go to Zuiyun Restaurant anymore, and all his attention was on those dogs, almost to the point of not leaving.

In order to prevent them from eating each other's food by mistake, Du Zijun personally fed them one by one at every meal, and did not give them anything to eat except water at other times.

A day passed, and the dogs were still alive and well, and there was nothing abnormal.

Du Zijun had already decided that he was thinking too much and was about to let the dog go, but Beizhu persuaded him, "Sister Bai is fine a few days before she comes back from the restaurant, let's wait." ”

"You're right, then I'll raise it for a few more days." Du Zijun re-tied the dog chain to the pillar again.

Most of the land of the Zhou Kingdom is the Gobi, and some places are deserts, except for the city, which is an oasis. As soon as you enter the city gates, it is like entering another world.

The endless desolation outside is gone, and everywhere is full of greenery.

The people on the street were dressed very coolly, and the women were dressed in tulle, with half of their arms exposed, and their faces were also wearing light gauze scarves. Each girl wore anklets on her feet, and as she walked, her white ankles loomed.

Compared to them, the clothes worn by the dancing girls are much more conservative.